Landscape lighting is all about finding a perfect balance between aesthetics and safety. It is crucial to plan the lighting scheme to ensure that it boosts safety while keeping up its looks and features elegantly.

In this blog, we are bringing you some important tips suggested by experts for garden lighting in Melbourne, Sydney, Brighton, and other Australian cities. There are mainly five simple ways to achieve functional yet beautiful alfresco lighting:

1. Learn The Significance of Early Planning: Experts suggest that the best way to light up your gardens or outdoors is by placing electricity at the right places before the plants are placed. As the owner, you must know the corners, centres, and all the parts where fixtures will be fixed. If you are planning to construct a certain effect then you must decide it at the earliest along with the type of fixtures.

2. Carefully Think of The Effect You Wish To Create: Everyone has a different idea of brightening up their space. Some like to keep things subtle but elegant, some want to add some depth and some want to take the appeal up a notch by adding some drama. You need to decide what kind of vibe you want to emanate from the place. If you are hiring a landscape designer, it is one of the first questions they will have for you. The best place, to begin with, is the architecture of your place. Let the designer take a small tour and review your place and let them know your own thoughts.

3. Budget: Experts suggest that at least 5% of the total garden design budget should be allotted to lighting. It serves two purposes, first, it gives the designer an idea of how to create an outdoor vista. Secondly, it allows ample use of garden space even after dark.

4. Focus Quality While Selecting Fittings: Garden lights need to be of good quality as they are on the frontline when it comes to weather extremes. You may feel a little overwhelmed with the prices of good quality fittings in the beginning, but it will pay off in the years to come by. Specialists recommend high-quality brass fittings because they have a natural resistance to corrosion and the ability to withstand the ever-changing climate conditions of Australia. In terms of aesthetics, brass acts as a perfect base for several finishes. It can either be powder-coated or electroplated in bronze, copper, nickel or matte black finish depending on your preference.

5. Understand The Different Types of Lighting: Normally, outdoor lights are meant to be camouflaged as the emphasis is on illumination and not just the fixture. But if you wish to make some exceptions, you can have string lights and sculptural lights. Apart from that, you can also have bollard lights, spike lights, strip lights, projection lights, and spotlights. If you are worried about colour matches, then you can always use dark grey or black in matte-finish to keep the fixtures from reflecting the light.

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